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...Edmund Hanauer, executive director of the Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, also said U.S. foreign policy must change before tensions between Israel and Palestinians can be resolved...
...tumble, Kirch may have to give up significant parts of the conglomerate he built from scratch over more than four decades. And, should the controversy taint friends who helped him along the way, he may not be the only high-profile casualty. One of his staunchest backers is Edmund Stoiber, premier of Bavaria and the opposition candidate set to challenge Gerhard Schr?der for the German chancellorship in September...
...Babu Chiri Sherpa who, before he was killed in 2001, completed a speed ascent in less than 17 hours, rests on decades of accumulated knowledge and sacrifice by the Sherpas who came before them: men like Tenzing Norgay, who braved the slopes seven times before becoming, along with Edmund Hillary, the first to stand on top of the world's highest mountain, in 1953. As the 50th anniversary of the first ascent approaches, climbing Everest is as much a historic journey as it is a feat of mountaineering...
That view changed dramatically last week when Edmund Stoiber, the premier of Bavaria and the CSU's chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...
When The Fellowship of the Ring was first released, literary critic Edmund Wilson assailed Tolkien for creating polarized characters—characters that were either good or evil, and nothing in between. Sauron and his servants are the utter embodiment of evil, with no goal other than to dominate the world under a pall of darkness. Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the protagonists of the novel, have no wish other than to see Middle Earth live in peace and are willing to sacrifice themselves to attain that goal...